Milestones, Apr. 2, 1945

Married. Al Jolson, 56, veteran "Mammy" singer; and Erie Galbraithe, 21, Southern-syllabled cinema starlet, ex-X-ray technician, remote kinswoman of General Claire Chennault; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in Quartzsite, Ariz.

Divorced. Sidney B. Wood Jr., 33, youngest Wimbledon tennis champion in history (19 in 1931), ex-Davis Cup star, now co-owner (with Tennist Don Budge) of a swank Manhattan laundry; by Edith Betts Wood, 33, New York socialite; after eleven years of marriage, two children; in Phoenix, Ariz.

Died. Major General William H. Rupertus, 55, big-jowled commandant of Marine Corps...

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